About 350 million people across Africa speak one or more of the 500 Bantu languages. New genetic analysis of modern and ancient individuals suggests that these populations probably originated in ...

An international team of researchers from the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the CNRS in Lyon have investigated the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA of 500 individuals from ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. -- Much research addresses how and why many of the earth's thousands of languages are disappearing. The question still arises, however, as to why it should matter to the rest of us if, ...

Researchers have investigated the maternally inherited mitochondrial DNA of 500 individuals from southern Africa speaking different Khoisan and Bantu languages. Their results demonstrate that Khoisan ...

IN view of the increasing importance of native policy as a factor in determining the future of British and Mandated Africa, it is essentiallydesirable that accurate information about the native should ...

Racial origins, by R.A. Dart.--Habitat, by A.J.H. Goodwin.--Grouping and ethnic history, by N.J. van Warmelo.--Social organization, by A. Winifred Hoernlé ...

This press release is available in German. An international team of researchers from the MPI for Evolutionary Anthropology in Leipzig and the CNRS in Lyon have investigated the maternally inherited ...